tiffany
FREQ #7638
n. 丝纱罗
词形变化
tiffanies
复数
tiffanies
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A kind of gauze, or very thin silk.
可数 不可数1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey; or, the Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, Scene 1, p. 34, […] he made me throw away my peasant weeds, and gave me all these fine cloaths. See this tiffany, all spotted with silver; look at this beautiful turban—He gave it me all!
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词源
From an Anglo-Norman common name for the festival of the Epiphany. See Tiffany.
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